Supreme Court sides with Google in high stakes Oracle copyright infringement fight

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Google in a multibillion-dollar copyright infringement battle with Oracle Corp. over how the search giant created its Android smartphone operating system. The ruling ends a 10-year fight between the Silicon Valley tech giants in which Oracle claimed that Alphabet Inc. owed it money because its Google predecessor used about 12,000 lines of code that were copied from the Java application programming interface developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle…